Commentary on commentary

I’m not really understanding too much about the purpose of online commentary anymore.   Every single news story I see has a place for comments at the end.   Can I just say that people can be exeptionally ruthless?

People even have crappy things to say about people starving in Somalia.   This is ridiculous and disgusting.   It’s not all people are commenting vehemently about, but it’s the story I find least deserving of crappy comments at the moment.

I keep thinking… Would you say these things to a person’s face?   Would you actually stare a starving Somalian person in the face and say, “Tough luck.  Move somewhere else.” Or something 1000 times worse?

I guess everyone has an opinion and a right to express their opinion, but really?   Are we really living amongst so many exceptionally asinine people who just want to document their most hateful opinion on news stories about whatever story they find deserving of their abuse?

Maybe comment sections should be altered to say, “Please write the most inhumane, hateful thing you can think of here.   Just be a total ass.  Go ahead.”   Then the world of online commentary might begin to make sense.